The winner of this year’s SuperValu Tidy Towns competition is Trim, Co Meath.
This the 4th time the Meath town has won the national title, their winning score is 366 points.
Rosscarbery, Co Cork was named as Ireland’s Tidiest Village Clonakilty, Co Cork was awarded Ireland’s Tidiest Small Town, and Ennis, Co Clare was named Ireland’s Tidiest Large Urban Centre. The competition had 882 entries this year. Towns and villages enter a category relevant to their population size.
County Tipperary is considered to be two separate counties in line with the former North/South boundaries. The overall county winner for Tipperary is Kilsheelan with a score of 359 points.
The leading point scorer in each category in North Tipperary is as follows: Terryglass 361, Silvermines 351, Templemore 312, Ballina Boher 330, Nenagh & Roscrea joint highest in Category E 336 points (No entry from Thurles).
In South Tipperary Grange village was the highest in Category A with 332 points, Emly scored 358 in Category B, Kilsheelan 359 in Category C, Cahir and Cashel both earned 346 points in Category D – Tipperary Town scored 332 in this category. Carrick on Suir recorded 304 points for Category E while Clonmel earned 352 points for population category G.
Across the county there were Gold Medals for Terryglass, Kilsheelan and Clonmel, a Silver Medal for Emly, and Bronze Medals for Birdhill, Silvermines, Nenagh, Roscrea, Cahir and Cashel. The medals are awarded to entrants that are within a certain range of the winning score.
Endeavour Awards were given to Ballysloe and Ballyporeen – this means they were the Tipperary entrants that recorded the highest % improvement on their 2021 score.
Entrants from County Tipperary secured a number of victories in Special Categories – Cahir, was named as the overall winner of the Young Persons in TidyTowns Award and also the overall winner of the SuperValu AsIAm Inclusive Communities Award.Kilsheelan won for sustainable development in village or small town category. Clonmel TidyTowns, won in the south east region of the pollinator award for large towns.
Adare emerged as the county winner in County Limerick with a score of 356 marks. The category winners in county Limerick were Ardpatrick 352, Galbally 351, Adare 356, Moyross 264, Newcastle West 336 and Limerick City scored 330. The full results booklet is available here
